Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ August 2013 edition, featuring Graphic Systems North America, Mitsubishi Imaging (MPM), Yupo Corp. of America, Sensible Technologies and GBR Systems...
How can you maximize profits from your existing business while you’re transforming your company for the future? That question and more will be answered at the manroland sheetfed CEO Forum that will take place on the evening of September 9, during PRINT 13 in Chicago.
At PRINT 13, manroland web systems will discuss securing the future of existing core pressroom technologies for customers through optimizing, utilizing existing infrastructures, and proactively managing service issues.
Tony Langley, the man who rescued the then-insolvent printing press manufacturer, is an ardent racer who recently entered his manroland sheetfed vessel (dubbed Weapon of Choice) in the 2013 Musto Vice Admiral's Cup, hosted by the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club at Cowes in the United Kingdom. Direct mail specialist Three Dog Logistics of Baltimore recently did its part to help out the Girl Scouts of America in delivering some cookies and smiles to military veterans and their families.
This year, the largest heatset press of the world—consisting of two 80p manroland Lithoman IV presses—is going into production at Kraft-Schlötels in Wassenberg, Germany. The press will be equipped with postpress machinery from Rima-System and Müller Martini.
The beauty of UV and other coatings is that they allow the customers to sell the sizzle instead of the steak which, from a marketing point of view, is much easier to accomplish. Greg Iannuccillo, vice president of sales and packaging for Packaging Graphics—a member of The MATLET Group family based in Pawtucket, RI—points out that much of the UV work his firm produces is geared toward the home and personal care spaces.
Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ June 2013 edition, featuring INX International Ink, manroland web systems, Bell and Howell and Royal Sovereign International, EFI and printLEADER, Whittier Mailing Products, Mohawk, and Q.I. Press Controls.
AUGSBURG, GERMANY—manroland web systems announced that Greg Blue, a 19-year veteran of the printing industry, will be taking over as CEO of the company, effective immediately. Blue's experience includes many years of service knowledge and management experience in a host of critical areas ranging from application engineering, project and support management and aftermarket business development.
In Augsburg, Germany, manroland web systems presented the world premiere of its FoldLine finishing system for industrial digital printing—the book block solution FormerLine and efficient workflow solutions. The FoldLine finishing system for industrial digital printing is designed to produce newspapers in any format (tabloid, broadsheet, Berlin) in both inline and offline operation.
The installation of Lewisburg Printing's new six-color, 73˝ R900 XXL press from manroland inc. is almost complete. The new unit will complement an existing six-color, 73˝ Roland that was purchased in 2008.
